University of Basrah held a seminar about Shiga _like toxin 2 .

College of Pharmacy at the University of Basrah organized a seminar entitled:(Shiga_like toxin 2 : an important virulence factor in E. coli O157:H7 )Which was presented by Assist. Prof.Dr. Eiman Ali Saeed.

The seminar showed a study of extraction and purification of Shiga_like toxin 2 that produced by E. coli O157 :H7 as well as the study of its histological effects on laboratory animals .This study  is considered  as a first step in the treatment of bloody diarrhea .The treatment is in form of antitoxin ,because it is not workable  to use antibiotics in the treatment of bloody diarrhea that  caused by  enterohemorrhagic E.coli , due to the ability of the antibiotics to damage  the bacterial walls which lead to release the toxin in the blood circulation.
This toxin is the major cause of bloody diarrhea in children under the age of 5 years, and its complications  result in Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS) ,due to damaging of renal tissue  and cells which leads to renal failure and finally death.